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Which strategy focuses on identifying the cause of a problem?Read the answer and worked solution →A student gets stuck on a puzzle and asks a teacher for assistance. Which strategy is this?Read the answer and worked solution →Which strategy forms a judgement through rational, skeptical and unbiased evaluation of evidence?Read the answer and worked solution →Turning a problem into another problem for which solutions already exist is called what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the problem-solving cycle, what follows a solution?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of the five common barriers to problem solving?Read the answer and worked solution →A word problem turns easy when drawn as curves. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →To reduce traffic, a planner only adds a lane. Which tendency is shown?Read the answer and worked solution →According to Jennifer Wiley's findings, what can professional expertise in a field create?Read the answer and worked solution →Why do young children show less functional fixedness?Read the answer and worked solution →What is collective intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →What is crowdsourcing?Read the answer and worked solution →Henry Jenkins contrasts schools with online communities how?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cognitive process organizes and interprets sensory information?Read the answer and worked solution →A brain that isolates one conversation from background chatter shows which effect?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the main job of attention in cognition?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is selection by attention needed in the brain?Read the answer and worked solution →Which phrase best defines cognition?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Indo-European root, meaning 'to know', gave rise to the word cognition?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair is sometimes called basic cognitive processes?Read the answer and worked solution →How does perception begin?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of perception is a primary source of knowledge about the environment for humans?Read the answer and worked solution →Which are the three stages of memory processing?Read the answer and worked solution →Which memory holds information temporarily while it is being manipulated?Read the answer and worked solution →Which memory retains information for long periods, sometimes indefinitely?Read the answer and worked solution →Remembering your last holiday trip mainly uses which memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Knowing that water freezes at 0 °C is stored in which memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Riding a bicycle relies mainly on which type of memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Procedural memory is classed as which kind of memory?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two memories belong to declarative or explicit memory?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Which strategy focuses on identifying the cause of a problem?

  1. Abstraction modelling
  2. Analogy and reuse
  3. Root cause analysis
  4. Divide and conquer
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Correct answer: C. Root cause analysis

1. Root cause analysis means identifying the cause of a problem. 2. Abstraction solves the problem in a simpler model system. 3. Divide and conquer splits the problem, and analogy adapts an earlier solution. _Source: Wikipedia, Problem solving, section Problem-solving strategies_

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A student gets stuck on a puzzle and asks a teacher for assistance. Which strategy is this?

  1. Brainstorming
  2. Help-seeking
  3. Reduction
  4. Research
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Correct answer: B. Help-seeking

1. Help-seeking is obtaining external assistance to deal with obstacles. 2. Asking a teacher for assistance fits this exactly. 3. Brainstorming produces ideas in a group, and research adapts existing solutions. _Source: Wikipedia, Problem solving, section Problem-solving strategies_

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Which strategy forms a judgement through rational, skeptical and unbiased evaluation of evidence?

  1. Trial-and-error
  2. Lateral thinking
  3. Critical thinking
  4. Using symmetry
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Correct answer: C. Critical thinking

1. Critical thinking is the analysis of available evidence and arguments. 2. It forms a judgement through rational, skeptical, and unbiased evaluation. 3. Trial-and-error and lateral thinking do not centre on weighing evidence. _Source: Wikipedia, Problem solving, section Problem-solving strategies_

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